different between roam vs gelding

English

Etymology

From Middle English romen, from Old English r?mian, from Proto-Germanic *raim?n? (“to wander”), from *raim- (“to move, raise”), from *h?reyH- (“to move, lift, flow”). Akin to Old English ?r?man (“to arise, stand up, lift up”), Old High German r?m?n (“to aim”) ( > archaic German rahmen (“to strive”)), Middle Dutch rammen (“to night-wander, to copulate”), rammelen (“to wander about, ramble”). More at ramble.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?m, IPA^(key): /???m/
• (General American) enPR: r?m, IPA^(key): /?o?m/
• Homophones: Rome
• Rhymes: -??m

Verb

roam (third-person singular simple present roams, present participle roaming, simple past and past participle roamed)

1. (intransitive) To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille (in The Guardian, 26 November 2013)[1]

     Wilshere had started as a left-footed right-winger, coming in off the flank, but he and Özil both had the licence to roam. Tomas Rosicky was not tied down to one spot either and, with Ramsey breaking forward as well as Olivier Giroud's considerable presence, Marseille were overwhelmed from the moment Bacary Sagna's first touch of the night sent Wilshere running clear.

2. (intransitive, computing, telecommunications) To use a network or service from different locations or devices.
3. (transitive, computing, telecommunications) To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them.
   • 2013, Scott Isaacs, Kyle Burns, Beginning Windows Store Application Development

     At first, it seemed counterintuitive to me to roam settings between computers, but my problem at the time was that every example I was considering was a setting that only made sense for a single computer.

4. (transitive) To range or wander over.

Synonyms

• (wander freely): err, shrithe, wander

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Amor, Mora, Omar, Oram, Roma, moar, mora, roma

Portuguese

Verb

roam

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of roer
2. third-person plural imperative of roer

English

Etymology

From Middle English geldyng, geldynge, from Old Norse geldingr (“wether, eunuch”), from gelda (“to castrate”), equivalent to geld (“to castrate”) +? -ing (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ld??/
• Rhymes: -?ld??

Noun

gelding (plural geldings)

1. A castrated male horse.
2. Any castrated male animal.
3. (archaic) A eunuch.
   • 1382–1395, John Wycliffe et al. (translators), Acts viii. 38

     They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.

Translations

Verb

gelding

1. present participle of geld

Anagrams

• Gedling, gingled, ledging, niggled

Icelandic

Etymology

From gelda (“to geld, to castrate”) +? -ing (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c?lti?k/
• Rhymes: -?lti?k

Noun

gelding f (genitive singular geldingar, nominative plural geldingar)

1. castration, gelding

Declension

Related terms

• gelda (“to geld, to castrate”)
• geldingur (“gelding, wether”)